Just as I was not in the mood to go searching for patterns, or to make my own pattern, I found exactly what I was looking for in Mary’s blog; a pattern for fingerless gloves. Mary wrote that she had made fingerless gloves simply by knitting a rectangle, and then sew them together. It can’t get any easier than that. I’ve used my favourite yarn, the alpaca yarn ”Misti” from ”Du Store Alpaca”. It’s so incredibly soft and lovely and warm. I cast on 30 stitches, needles number 6.00 mm, and continued in stocking stitch, before casting off after 35 rows. Then I sewed them together, leaving a hole for the thumb. Then I crocheted a picot edge at the top: * 1 slip stitch, 1 picot (1 slip stitch + 3 chain stitches + 1 slip stitch) *, repeating from * to *. The only forming of the gloves that I did, was to sew a thread around the top (underneath the picot edge), so that the fingerless gloves sit a bit tighter around my hand.

This autumn-winter-autumn-winter is no fun at all. The rain is pouring down, and everything is dark and grey outside. Until I saw one of my neighbours’s apple trees, standing there with its red apples, brightening up the neighbourhood. That helped a lot :-)

alpaca softness is great to warm up the hands. sounds like a great little cheer me up project. I love the edging.the red apples look a bit confused at all the grey around... but the grey is great to burst the color!

Girl, you're fast! Your gloves look great and I LOVE the tiny people on the necklace(I have a few tiny people myself--did you see any rock climbers?). But the best is your vegetable salt. I'll make one batch with veggies and another with just herbs from my garden.

We are having winter autumn winter autumn here also with a little spring thrown in. Last few days have been in the sixties. Buds are blooming on trees again. But we had snow in early October. I think the planet is having menopause like me. I never know from one day to the next what my temperature will be. The gloves are wonderful and what a clever idea to use rectangles.